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THREAD HOLDER AND CUTTER. No. 491.260. Patented Feb.?, 1893;

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EBENEZER CURTIS JENKINS, OF SHREYVSBURY, lllASSAOHUSETTS.

THREAD HOLDER AND GUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 491,260, dated February '7, 1893.

Serial No 422,966, (No model) To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Ennnnznn Courts Jan- KINs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shrewsbury, in the county of lVorccster and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful linproveinentsin Thread Holders and Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

The aim of this invention is to produce a device by which the end of the thread of a spool may be held, and out off, as desired.

To this end, the invention consists of the device described and claimed in this specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a spool of thread with my device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top view of my device. Figs. 3 and l are elevations of the disk from different points. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank on which my device is made.

Referring now to the drawings and in detail, lrepresents a blank which may be made of sheet steel, brass, or any suitable material, and preferably is made circular, and of about the same diameter, or a little less, than the head of a spool to which the same is to be applied, The edge of the blank is notched, or cut, as at 2, and, also, stamped out of the central portion are three (more or less) spring arms referred to by the numeral 3, and a catch 4: is also upset from the surface. The edge of the blank that is notched or cut is bent up, as on the dotted line in Fig. 5 to form a bent-u p lip, so that the complete article will have a lip in which there are two meeting, cutting edges, 8 and 9 above the disk. The arms 3 are bent down, as shown in 3 and at to form spring arms that are adapted to hold the device to the spool, and which will act to hold the device firmly in place on the head of the spool. Further, it will be seen that the cutting edges are protected, and that the hand can never come in contact with the same. Also, it will be seen that my entire device is stamped or out out of a circular piece of metal, preferably a circular blank, whereby the same may be cheaply and economically made. After the device has been placed on the spool, and after asnfficient length of thread has been unwound, the thread is caught in upon the catch 4, and is pulled sharply into the notch 2. This will out or break the thread in the cutter, and the broken thread will remain in the cutter, and thus the end of the thread will be held both by the notch and the catch 4. Further, it will be seen that the thread, as the same is being cut, will revolve around the catch l, as a center, and that the cutting edges 8 and 9 are placed so as not to be concentric with the catch 4 whereby the thread, as the same is drawn along the cutting edges, will be out or frayed for a considerable portion of its length before it is finally severed, so that the strands of the thread will be cut at different points whereby the end of the thread will be pointed, and may be easily threaded into the eye of a needle. This is an important point in practice, because if thethread were squarely cut, it would afterward have to be pointed before the same could be threaded into the eyc of a needle.

The special features of my invention are not limited touse in connection with a spool ing from the scope of myiuvention, as ex pressed in the claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-- 1. A thread cutter and holder comprising a disk having a portion of its periphery turned up, a slit formed in its upturned portion whereby two meeting cutting edges 8 and 9 are formed, which cutting edges are adapted to hold the end of the thread after the same has been cut off, and meanswhercby the disk may be fastened to a spool, substantially as described.

2. A thread holder and cutter comprising a disk, having a portion of its periphery up turned, and having a slit formed in its up turned portion, whereby cutting edges are formed, a catch 4 struck up from said disk, said catch and cutter being adapted to hold the thread, and means for fastening said disk to a spool, substantially as described.

5 3. A thread cutter and holder comprising: a disk, having a portion of its periphery up turned, and having a slit formed in said upturned portion, whereby cutting edges are formed, a catch 4: struck out from said disk,

I0 and spring arms 3 cut out and bent down from said disk, whereby the disk may be attached to the spool, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EBENEZER CURTIS JENKINS.

W'itnesses:

HERBERT MOINTOsI-I, LoUis W. SOU'IHGATE. 

